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Series: Supernatural: Spiritual Warfare and the Battle for Eternity
Jim Perdue
1 Peter 5:8-9
Last Sunday I began a sermon series entitled Supernatural: spiritual warfare and the battle for eternity. Last week we talked about the reality that you and I are involved in an invisible war. If God simply peeled back the curtain and allowed us to see what's happening all around us in the spiritual realm we would be astonished and amazed.
In his book on spiritual warfare, Chip Ingram writes, ''The truth is that there is an invisible world that is just as real as the visible world. There are vast numbers of angels, both good and bad-spirits that exist all around us. There are glorious beings that would take our breath way if we saw them, and there are evil beings that would horrify us if we could see them.... We are involved in an invisible war, a cosmic conflict that has enteral implications. It is real, it is serious, and it is ultimate in its consequences. We are soldiers in the battle that matters most.''
The Bible tells us in Ephesians that our struggle is not against ''flesh and blood.'' As we saw last week, our war is not ''according to the flesh.'' In other words, this is not a physical war, but a spiritual war that has eternal spiritual consequences.
''There is a visible and an invisible world that intersect, and we live in the intersection. A cosmic conflict is raging, and it has eternal implications. The souls of men and women, little boys and girls, of people of every nationality and color and language all over the planet are at stake. The enemy seeks to blind us all to the truth, to dull our souls and ruin our lives. That's what spiritual warfare is all about.
This morning, we come to an important message in our series on spiritual warfare. From 1 Peter 5:8-9 I want us all to recognize an important truth, You Have An Enemy! READ TEXT
*I don't have a great memory but I can remember the first time I heard th ...
Series: Supernatural: Spiritual Warfare and the Battle for Eternity
Jim Perdue
1 Peter 5:8-9
Last Sunday I began a sermon series entitled Supernatural: spiritual warfare and the battle for eternity. Last week we talked about the reality that you and I are involved in an invisible war. If God simply peeled back the curtain and allowed us to see what's happening all around us in the spiritual realm we would be astonished and amazed.
In his book on spiritual warfare, Chip Ingram writes, ''The truth is that there is an invisible world that is just as real as the visible world. There are vast numbers of angels, both good and bad-spirits that exist all around us. There are glorious beings that would take our breath way if we saw them, and there are evil beings that would horrify us if we could see them.... We are involved in an invisible war, a cosmic conflict that has enteral implications. It is real, it is serious, and it is ultimate in its consequences. We are soldiers in the battle that matters most.''
The Bible tells us in Ephesians that our struggle is not against ''flesh and blood.'' As we saw last week, our war is not ''according to the flesh.'' In other words, this is not a physical war, but a spiritual war that has eternal spiritual consequences.
''There is a visible and an invisible world that intersect, and we live in the intersection. A cosmic conflict is raging, and it has eternal implications. The souls of men and women, little boys and girls, of people of every nationality and color and language all over the planet are at stake. The enemy seeks to blind us all to the truth, to dull our souls and ruin our lives. That's what spiritual warfare is all about.
This morning, we come to an important message in our series on spiritual warfare. From 1 Peter 5:8-9 I want us all to recognize an important truth, You Have An Enemy! READ TEXT
*I don't have a great memory but I can remember the first time I heard th ...
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